wizened

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Wizened, wiry Jimmy Baldassare's parents died when he was eleven.

From Time Magazine Archive

Wizened, stoop-shouldered Claudio Aguilar, who works on a neighboring farm, went to work on the pulpit.

From Time Magazine Archive

Wizened old women bent like hunchbacks sold flavored waters and goat's milk from glazed ceramic jugs strapped to their shoulders.

From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin

Wizened children, who had never known the joys of childhood, worked side by side at long rows of spools to which they must give unremitting attention.

From The Colonel's Dream by Chesnutt, Charles W. (Charles Waddell)

Wizen, wiz′n, Wizened, wiz′nd, adj. dried up: thin: shrivelled.—v.i. and v.t. to become dry, to make dry.—adj.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various